Using Java and mailto to create an email

[Goo]

Hi. Looking for some advice.

I have a simple javascript that gathers email from a HTML form and then
upon the submit button click, it opens a default mail window with
"mailto" and inserts some text and form field data, etc, in the body of
the email.

My only problem is, in Outlook, my default message settings are to
insert a stationary background and signature file.

But whenever I run the javascript and use the mailto command, it won't
invoke my default email settings or use the HTML background, etc.

Any advice?

Thanks.

 

[Timo Stamm]

Hi. Looking for some advice.

I have a simple javascript

JavaScript has absolutely nothing to do with Java. You are asking in the
wrong groups.

that gathers email from a HTML form and then
upon the submit button click, it opens a default mail window with
"mailto" and inserts some text and form field data, etc, in the body of
the email.

My only problem is, in Outlook, my default message settings are to
insert a stationary background and signature file.

But whenever I run the javascript and use the mailto command, it won't
invoke my default email settings or use the HTML background, etc.

Any advice?

I doubt *very* much that you can change this.

In fact, even subject and body are not standardized in "mailto:" URLs
and you don't have any guarantee that the mail client will support it.
It is likely that some users will click on your form and end up with an
empty new mail message with only the recipient address filled in.


(f'up2 comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html)

Timo

 

[Rhino]

Hi. Looking for some advice.

I have a simple javascript that gathers email from a HTML form and then
upon the submit button click, it opens a default mail window with
"mailto" and inserts some text and form field data, etc, in the body of
the email.

My only problem is, in Outlook, my default message settings are to
insert a stationary background and signature file.

But whenever I run the javascript and use the mailto command, it won't
invoke my default email settings or use the HTML background, etc.

Any advice?

Yes. Ask your question on a javascript newsgroup, like comp.lang.javascript.
Java and JavaScript, despite the similar names, have nothing to do with one
another.

 

[Roedy Green]

I have a simple javascript that gathers email from a HTML form

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javascript.html

If this turns out to be too difficult in JavaScript to get what you
want consider using Java and JavaMail where you act as the email
client yourself.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javamail.html

There are two problems with doing it in Java.
1. you need to download javamail.jar
2. you don't have access to the client's email accounts.